IBT Staff Reporter

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet kept up warnings over Italy's strained public finances Saturday, telling the struggling center-right government it must act quickly to reassure nervous markets.

Billie Joe Armstrong, the 39-year-old frontman of Green Day, was escorted off Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland, California for wearing his pants too low.

Friday, the identity behind the wheels of Joe Senser's SUV involved in a hit-and-run was revealed.Amy Senser, Senser's wife, was driving when she hit and killed a pedestrian on Aug.23, Senser family's attorney Eric Nelson said.

After its long survival for 3.7 million years, the fossil of a species of wooly rhinoceros finally saw the light of day as it was uncovered in Tibet's Zanda Basin, a hotspot where scientists expect for most unexpected discoveries to come from.

After a slew of juicy rumors about Marc Anthony’s split with Jennifer Lopez and stories of his affair with Jada Pinkett Smith, he denied the speculated connection with his co-star.

As a blow to commercial space programs, an unmanned spacecraft privately funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos crashed during a test flight, said the billionaire CEO on Friday.

It was Joe Senser's wife, Amy Senser, who was identified as the driver of the SUV that hit and killed a pedestrian last week, said Senser family's attorney on Friday.

World number two Rafael Nadal and number four Andy Murray both progressed to the third round of the US Open, but in very contrasting circumstances.

Ford Motor plans to more than double its offers across vehicle segments in China, the world's top market, as it speeds up the launch of new models, a senior executive said on Saturday.

A regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions on Friday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housing crisis.

Employment growth ground to a halt in August, reviving recession fears and piling pressure on both President Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the frail economy.

Google’s acquisition of Motorola, in early August, generated reports stating Google’s interest in gaining access to the hardware company’s gamut of 17,000 patents.

It was an entertaining International friendly between Spain and Chile as the world champions had to work hard to secure a 3-2 comeback victory at the Stade de Geneve in Switzerland.

Though Android’s market has fewer number of apps compared to Apple’s app store, there are quite a few appealing ones, which may make you grab the smartphones based on Android operating system.

The world economy is stepping into a new danger zone, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, as growth slows and investor confidence weakens.

San Francisco police said on Friday they had helped Apple Inc security search for a lost item, following a week of reports that a prototype of the newest iPhone had gone missing in July.

Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.

Wall Street sees an 80 percent chance the Federal Reserve will intervene in the bond market to lower long-term interest rates, according to a Reuters poll, after a report showed the U.S. jobs crisis deepened in August.

The world economy is stepping into a new danger zone, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, as growth slows and investor confidence weakens.

A Borders Group Inc unit failed to give its workers proper notice of mass layoffs when it announced plan to liquidate in July, a new lawsuit alleges.

Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion (739.8 million pounds) World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.

Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil a cheaper, smaller $250 rival to Apple Inc's iPad tablet device in November, industry blog TechCrunch reported on Friday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables must somehow be released, according to a written record of the discussion.

Outside, the sun is shining, but it is dark in the production room where more than 150 Ubisoft artists, animators and engineers are racing to finish the latest edition of Assassin's Creed, one of this holiday's hotly anticipated games.

Stocks tumbled 2 percent on Friday after data showing zero jobs growth in August brought investors face-to-face with the prospect of another recession.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables must somehow be released, according to a written record of the discussion.

Things are about to get a little bit Funke-y on Modern Family.

A Florida meter reader is coming to collect from the National Enquirer, and he's looking for a lot more than a few quarters.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is living a heavily restricted life in Beijing after being released from detention earlier this year, but his work is speaking volumes to people in the second-largest U.S. city.